From 1880, the Earth's average surface temperature has risen by 0.07°C every decade.
Evidence shows that key historical developments such as industrial revolutions contributed significantly to…
Iceberg A68a was once large enough to hold the five boroughs of New York five times over; now, it's shattering like a broken window.
The world's largest iceberg has shattered into a dozen pieces,…
2020 was so bad that even disasters outdid themselves. Last year the United States alone experienced at least 16 weather and climate disasters with losses topping $1 billion each. That's more than…
Danish team predict possible 1.35m rise by 2100 and highlight issues with previous modelling.
The rise in the sea level is likely to be faster and greater than previously thought, according to…
The race to host the 2032 summer Olympics looks set to be one of the most fiercely contested in history. So when the Lapland town of Salla announced its intention to vie with Jakarta, Istanbul and…
Despite a journey to this moment even more treacherous than expected, Americans now have a fresh opportunity to act, decisively, on climate change.
The authors of the many new books released in just…
Climate campaigners on Thursday pointed to a study showing that Earth is hotter than it's ever been during the entire epoch of human civilization as the latest proof of the need to treat human-caused…
Boris Johnson, Emmanuel Macron and Justin Trudeau among leaders to attend first global summit focused on adapting to climate crisis
World leaders met at a virtual summit on Monday to discuss the…
Climate scientist and writer Joëlle Gergis speaks about the incalculable loss already suffered due to climate change and why the only way forward is to acknowledge the grief rather than ignore it.
Sobering new report says world is failing to grasp the extent of threats posed by biodiversity loss and the climate crisis.
The planet is facing a “ghastly future of mass extinction, declining…
An agreed system for measuring funding of green projects in poorer nations will be vital to achieving action on climate change in 2021.
A fortnight before the adoption of the 2015 Paris climate…
Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau were among world leaders pledging to tackle wildlife loss at One Planet Summit.
The UN secretary-general has urged countries to do more to tackle the world’s climate…
The world watched with a sense of dread in 2018 as Cape Town, South Africa, counted down the days until the city would run out of water. The region’s surface reservoirs were going dry amid its worst…
Heat stress, water scarcity, air pollution and energy insecurity are problems felt more acutely in dense urban areas
Cities across the world will see a near-universal drop in humidity by the end of…
When the rains never arrived in the East African nation of Somalia in 2016, nor in 2017, hundreds of thousands of rural residents were forced to abandon their lands and livelihoods due to one of the…